Associate Director- Pharmacometrics - Rahway, United States - MSD

MSD

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Rahway, United States

1 week ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

The Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics (QP2) department drives model-informed drug discovery and development (MIDD) to routinely enable efficient drug discovery/development and/or regulatory decisions.

The Pharmacometrics group within QP2 brings an experienced leadership team, deep modeling expertise and state-of-the-art modeling approaches across multiple therapeutic areas and modalities to drive portfolio impact from discovery through life-cycle management.

The team is externally visible and continues to be at the leading edge of building innovative state of the art tools.

With MIDD as an essential component of decision-making at our company, this position offers an opportunity for the Associate Director to drive pipeline impact across therapy areas.

Associate Directors are expected to have or be developing expertise in several areas, including:

Responsible for achieving results on major program drivers by implementation of one or more novel quantitative approaches that seek to improve cycle time, cost/size, number of trials, clinical trial design and Go/No Go decisions
Framing critical drug development questions for optimizing modelinformed development
Responsible for developing and executing population pharmacokinetic models, PK/PD models, ER models, MBMA, CTS, disease progression models, and other pharmacometric analyses
Developing and maintaining a comprehensive understanding of global regulatory expectations for small molecules and biologics, authoring regulatory documents (INDs, CSRs, CTDs), and representing QP2 at regulatory meetings

Required Experience:

- (a Ph.
D.

or equivalent degree with a minimum 3 years of experience) OR (a PharmD or equivalent degree with at least 5 years of experience) OR (an MS or equivalent degree with at least 7 years of experience), where "experience" means having a record of increasing responsibility and independence in a similar role in pharmaceutical drug development or academia.

Educational background in pharmacometrics, biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical sciences, mathematics, statistics/biostatistics, computational biology/chemistry, chemical/biomedical engineering, or a related field.
Proficiency in performing pharmacometrics analyses such as population PK, PKPD, ER, MBMA, CTS, etc
Knowledge of drug development, pharmacokinetics and pharmacology principles required

Preferred Experience:

Proficiency in performing MBMA, CTS in standard pharmacometric software (e.g. R, NONMEM, Monolix, Matlab, etc.)
Strong skills in experimental design, mathematical problem solving, critical data analysis/interpretation, and statistics
Proficiency in written and verbal communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, and problem scoping and planning
Good interpersonal skills that ensure teamwork and productive interactions among diverse personalities/areas of expertise

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package.

To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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